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Yeah, Jack. I know. Don't look at him that way. I was twelve. I couldn't do you justice.Jack Benson's a very old character of mine. I came up with him when I was about ten and writing a novel about the Bermuda Triangle (it's a time warp back to dinosaur times, you know). Then he became a character in a comic strip called Blonde City.
Jack is, in short, a statistical anomaly. (The proper scientific term is CMS Coincidence Misfortune Syndrome) No matter what he does or where he goes if something can go wrong...it does. For instance, he's been hit by lightning twice, lived through a tornado and an earthquake, been in four bank holdups and has had three cases of amnesia. And he always manages to crawl out of it alive.
But he doesn't really mind. In fact he's under the extremely misguided expression that his life is normal. Despite his crazy life he's generally upbeat and optimistic. Although he does have a few neurotic tendencies.
He has two noticeable scars on his face. The one across his nose was from a disgruntled parrot. And the one on his jaw came from a vicious sewing machine accident. There's a cryptic tattoo on the back of his left hand. You can ask him where it came from:
"What? This?" He holds up his hand and glances at it with a airy shrug. "I was mugged. Woke up in an alley behind a tattoo parlor."
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ChrystalK [2015-12-13 21:29:56 +0000 UTC]
I like him. XD He's cute. Like a pre-Rover kind of person. All types of crazy stuff happens and he's like, "Aw, don't worry 'bout it. I got this. Happens all the time."
You were twelve when you did that? Wow. One year off from where I am now. XD I should do this with my main character...
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chill13 In reply to ChrystalK [2015-12-13 21:46:35 +0000 UTC]
Yep. He wqas ine of my first original characters. Although his adventures kind of dropped in on him from nowhere, while Rover tends to get himself in trouble more often than not.
Really? Well, you're doing amazingly well!
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ChrystalK In reply to chill13 [2015-12-13 21:58:08 +0000 UTC]
Cool! And you first started when you were ten? I was about eleven when I started thinking up my first original character.
Yeah, I see that difference now. Rover's misadventures tend to be self-inflicted. But the description makes it pretty clear that Jack's seem to appear out of thin air just to ruin his day.
The worst things happen to the nicest people, I guess. Jack seems to prove it. I mean, just look at that smile! About how old is he?
Aw, thanks. I couldn't do it by myself. I've had a lot of support from my friends, family, and God. ;D
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chill13 In reply to ChrystalK [2015-12-13 22:27:04 +0000 UTC]
Yeah. I mean I had drawn a lot of people. But Jack was the first I really put a lot of thought into.
Yeah. And, while Jack isn't exactly shy, he is not a complete extrovert like Rover. He's perfectly happy being a normal guy just going about his daily routine. I don't remember his job, but I do remember it was something very average and involved a cubical.
I always thought of him to be around late twenties to early thirties.
That's awesome!
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ChrystalK In reply to chill13 [2015-12-13 23:47:41 +0000 UTC]
Cool! That's how it was with my first attempt at my own original stuff.
Huh. That's interesting that he has a somewhat boring job. At least one part of his life is normal, right? XDΒ I thought that's how old he was. YouΒ drew the indicators ofΒ his age well.
;D
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mimimaddy101 [2015-11-04 15:00:42 +0000 UTC]
woah.... he's around my age in existence then!
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LilaBlack [2013-08-12 00:02:30 +0000 UTC]
u were twelve? dude, that's pretty good for that age!
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chill13 In reply to LilaBlack [2013-08-12 00:08:51 +0000 UTC]
Round abouts. Β Thanks! Β He was kind of my pet. Β I used to draw him all the time. Β He was a main character in both a sci-fi novel I started and a comic strip. Β (neither of which were very complete)
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LilaBlack In reply to chill13 [2013-08-12 00:22:22 +0000 UTC]
that happens often around that age.. i'm currently writing around 10 stories, around 3 with my friends, and i have ideas for a bagillion comics...but i seriously doubt any of them will be ever finished...
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chill13 In reply to LilaBlack [2013-08-12 16:08:38 +0000 UTC]
As of now I have around 40 unfinished stories. Some have been abandoned quite awhile ago but some I'm still working on.
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LilaBlack In reply to chill13 [2013-08-12 18:36:42 +0000 UTC]
gosh..i wonder if it's like that with every writer... i mean, did J.K.Rowling have tons of unfinished stories before she actually finished something? are there 1238 never finished books on J.R.R.Tolkien's attic or something???
The world may never know...
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arcnova [2012-11-28 06:05:27 +0000 UTC]
For example: my 2.5yr old recently got "hospitalize him" sick, (turned out to be a passing thing thank goodness, food allergies stink) while my husband was hiking in a canyon and unreachable to come and take us to the ER. The three weekends before that my husband hung out at home playing video games, murphey's curse would have placed the incident on one of those weekends forcing us to go to the ER because the pediatrician wasn't in and ruining an otherwise uneventful, relaxing weekend. But noooo, it had to be at the worst possible time that could be arranged! I count my blessings that I only have a mild case of the curse lol.
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arcnova In reply to arcnova [2012-11-28 06:06:21 +0000 UTC]
excuse me, it should say ...video games, murphey's law would have...
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arcnova [2012-11-28 05:59:51 +0000 UTC]
I think I still have the manuscript for the Bermuda story! (no more floppy drive though lol)
I call CMS murphey's curse, as opposed to murphey's law. Murphey's law happens to everyone, it's when your two year old barfs while you're getting ready for work and you have to call work and tell them you'll be a few minutes late, murphey's curse on the other hand is when your two year old barfs all over your work clothes after you've already arrived at the daycare five minutes from work and a half an hour from your house. Jack just has a really bad case of Murphey's curse lol!
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chill13 In reply to arcnova [2012-11-28 06:03:51 +0000 UTC]
Yes. A very bad case! He's the kind of guy who gets trapped in the elevator when the power goes out...with a pregnant woman...who goes into labor.
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